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When Jack Froese, 32, died of a heart arrhythmia in June 2011, he left behind a number of grieving friends and family members. But the BBC reports that several mysterious posthumous emails from Froese’s account have brought some happiness and closure to those who were closest to him.

During an interview, Tim Hart, his childhood best friend, recounts on the day it first happened, five months after Froese’s death.

“One night in November, I was sitting on my couch, going through my emails on my phone and it popped up, ‘sender: Jack Froese.’ I turned ghost white when I read it,” Hart told the BBC. “It was very quick and short but to a point that only Jack and I could relate on.”

This email takes Tim back to shortly before Froese’s death when they were having a private conversation in Hart’s attic, and Froese teased him over the attic’s messy state. “Just he and I up there. That’s it,” Hart said.